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Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.


H. R. Giger

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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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' I F E V E R Y T H I N...
SERGE BENHAYON Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things...
ARSHDEEP SINGH SAMRALA I I I I I I t t t t t t i i i i i i s s s s s s u u u u u u n n n n n n f f f f f f o o o o o o r r ...
TODD COBURN The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many p...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Now we want (H&R) Block to make public the right numbers.
BRAD HENSKE Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, real...
BETH HENLEY The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI My savior has a first name. It's J-E-S-U-S. My savior has a second name. It's C-H-R-I-S-T,
JOHN SCHWARTZ Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.
FREDERICK WEISEL I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H. R. GIGER I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to t...
H. R. GIGER You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite ...
H. R. GIGER No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. GIGER You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it&...
H. R. GIGER I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the fo...
H. R. GIGER Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. ...
H. R. GIGER You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H. R. GIGER There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. GIGER You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the painting...
H. R. GIGER Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, over...
H. R. GIGER For a firm like H&R Block, credibility is of paramount importance. If the H&R Block story becomes fo...
JAMES MCALEXANDER The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them ...
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
IRINA SHAYK I like the paintings. I'm not saying I like all the individuals. But Clinton, Reagan, and George H. ...
LEONARD JOHNSON Personally, I think doing taxes is a big pain in the tushy, so I have them done at Preparation H & R...
KAREN LEE In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We do...
TREVOR NOAH M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T...
HOWARD JOHNSON Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.
RON HALL Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA Because if somebody literally proves me wrong not only will I feel horrible about it, but I will loo...
PATRICIA CORNWELL My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law ...
LAURA WASSER My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional...
YAYOI KUSAMA You're going to see a lot of terrible, terrible evidence. A lot of terrible, terrible photos. What I...
PETER PERSAUD That's a hard shot to make. You can win a lot of games in H-O-R-S-E if you can make that shot consis...
GEORGE NESSMAN It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
BARRY SWITZER It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious offensive football game.
BARRY SWITZER I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the st...
BRITTANY HOWARD And these horrible acts almost always include terrible death and destruction,
HILTON SUTTON 'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made ...
PAUL HAGGIS People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrib...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the "greatest" bad paintings.
FRANCOISE CACHIN This is horrible, terrible and devastating. But everybody knew it was vulnerable.
CLAUDE STRAUSER Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horribl...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
RALPH ALLEN With both plays, you have people standing around doing nothing while other people are doing terrible...
BARTLETT SHER I think it's horrible because so many people are going to miss those first two days of class. For so...
LAUREN ROSCOE We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they ...
ERIC HOFFER You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in...
RALPH STEADMAN People can do horrible things when faced with difficult financial decisions.
JAMES MORRIS ROBINSON Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...
MOTHER TERESA I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writin...
SYLVESTER STALLONE It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Con...
DENISE SPOSATO My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a ...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating thei...
PAUL RUSESABAGINA After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as the...
OSCAR WILDE There are only good people in this world. Sometimes good people do bad things, but thats ok, we forg...
CHARLIE JAMES Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I pain...
EDVARD MUNCH The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment...
BOB MORLEY People are getting nervous about H-share prices. At this level, H-shares are quite high.
CASTOR PANG It's an attempt to protect the little guy from himself. H&R Block is helping people become first-tim...
ALEXANDER JR It's an attempt to protect the little guy from himself. H&R Block is helping people become first-tim...
ALEXANDER PARIS JR I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
MARK TWAIN Sometimes I see my father in me,
PETER FALK Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
RICK RIORDAN Sometimes, ... we see only what we want to see.
BOB RYAN You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary sub...
LIANE MORIARTY I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan ...
CY TWOMBLY The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
MIUCCIA PRADA We run fast forward at 200km/h searching for love, but sometimes the true one is at our back searchi...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
MARK TWAIN Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into m...
ELLSWORTH KELLY Knowledge is terrible; it interferes with doing things my way.
JIM GENOVESE The world and it's people are my church".

~R. Alan Woods [1996]
R. ALAN WOODS It's disturbing to see a culture go crazy over these cartoons when all these horrible things have be...
DON ASMUSSEN Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi...
TAMMY WYNETTE All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in realit...
FERNANDO BOTERO I've played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on 'The Knick&#...
ERIC JOHNSON They came from Paris just for this. This is the only time you will see these paintings together in t...
JACK FLAM Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and...
VINCENT GALLO It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these p...
KATE MILLETT Sometimes people put up walls, not only to keep people out, but also to see who cares enough to tear...
LEISA RAYVEN My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it ...
JOHN GUARE Still, I could see my reflection in her eyes, that made me look so horrible, but the reality wasn't ...
PRANJAL JAIN Life is a paradiddle...

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R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can ge...
CECILY BROWN Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And someti...
MONIKA BASILE We see horrible things when animals are tied up. They're left out in the sun with no food or water, ...
LINDA ESTRADA Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; ...
ROMAN REIGNS Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
BRENDAN FRASER The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just c...
AGNES MARTIN Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my...
CAMILLE PAGLIA They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.
EDWARD HUMES I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose...
BALTHUS

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I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H. R. GIGER I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to t...
H. R. GIGER You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite ...
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H. R. MCMASTER Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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H. R. HAWEIS Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too...
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H. R. HAWEIS Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
H. R. HAWEIS Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
H. R. HAWEIS Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li...
R. H. BLYTH There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
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R. H. GRANT When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. GRANT Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. DELANEY In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, '...
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REV. R. H. BARHAM The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.
REV. R. H. BARHAM And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.
REV. R. H. BARHAM She drank prussic acid without any water,/ And died like a Duke-and-a-Duchess's daughter!
REV. R. H. BARHAM Why, Captain! - my Lord! - Here's the devil to pay! / The fellow's been cut down and taken away! / W...
REV. R. H. BARHAM And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.
REV. R. H. BARHAM Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody see...
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H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
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H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
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